Braille pattern dots-3456 explained

The Braille pattern dots-3456 is a 6-dot braille cell with the top right, middle right, and both bottom dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top right, upper-middle right, and both lower-middle dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+283c, and in Braille ASCII with a number sign: #.

Unified Braille

In unified international braille, the braille pattern dots-3456 is used as a number indicator.[1]

Table of unified braille values

French Braillenumber indicator
English Braillenumber indicator
English Contraction-ble†
German Braillenumber indicator, ich
Bharati Brailleण / ਣ / ણ / ণ / ଣ / ణ / ಣ / ണ / ண [2]
Icelandic Braille-->
IPA Braille/ɹ/
Russian Braillenumber indicator
Slovak Braille-->
Arabic Braille-->
Persian Braillenumber indicator
Irish Braille-->
Thai Braille-->
Luxembourgish Braille0 (zero)
Braille-->
† Abolished in Unified English Braille

Other braille

Japanese Braillenumber indicator
Korean Braille/ -->
Mainland Chinese Brailleeng
Taiwanese Braille, - / -->
Two-Cell Chinese Braille-ěi, number indicator
Nemeth Braillenumber indicator [3]
Gardner Salinas Braille
  1. (number sign) [4]
Algerian Braille‎-->
Braille-->

Plus dots 7 and 8

Related to Braille pattern dots-3456 are Braille patterns 34567, 34568, and 345678, which are used in 8-dot braille systems, such as Gardner-Salinas and Luxembourgish Braille.

dots 34567 dots 34568 dots 345678
Gardner Salinas Braille$ (dollar sign)£ (pound sign)close displayed equation
Luxembourgish Braille[5] -->
Braille-->
Related 8-dot kantenji patterns

See also: Braille pattern dots-5678, Braille pattern dots-15678, Braille pattern dots-45678 and Braille pattern dots-145678.

In the Japanese kantenji braille, the standard 8-dot Braille patterns 5678, 15678, 45678, and 145678 are the patterns related to Braille pattern dots-3456, since the two additional dots of kantenji patterns 03456, 34567, and 034567 are placed above the base 6-dot cell, instead of below, as in standard 8-dot braille.

Kantenji using braille patterns 5678, 15678, 45678, or 145678

This listing includes kantenji using Braille pattern dots-3456 for all 6349 kanji found in JIS C 6226-1978.

Variants and thematic compounds

Compounds of 火

Compounds of 非

Compounds of 熱 and 灬

Compounds of 蛍

Compounds of 丈

Other compounds

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: World Braille Usage. UNESCO. 2012-04-19. .
  2. Web site: Introduction to Bharati Braille. 25 April 2013. 5 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130405042606/http://www.acharya.gen.in:8080/disabilities/bh_brl.php. dead.
  3. Web site: Nemeth Braille (Mathematics Braille) . 2012-04-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120421113105/http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/disabilities/nemeth_brl.php . 2012-04-21 .
  4. Web site: Index of Topics in Braille Section . Oregon State University Science Access Project Braille topics. . 2012-04-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120420124208/http://dots.physics.orst.edu/gs_index.html . 2012-04-20 .
  5. Book: UNESCO. World Braille Usage. 2013. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Washington, DC. 978-0-8444-9564-4. 88.
  6. Web site: ロービジョン相談と光学. 31 January 2014.
  7. Web site: 盲人と文字 -漢点字の世界. 27 December 2013.
  8. Web site: 漢点字. 27 December 2013.
  9. Web site: 漢点字入門. 30 December 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131231141822/http://www.kunijima.sakura.ne.jp/temp/taijyukai.pdf. 31 December 2013.

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